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Chin. Phys. B, 2016, Vol. 25(11): 117204    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/11/117204
Special Issue: TOPICAL REVIEW — Topological electronic states
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Recent observations of negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in semimetal

Xi-Tong Xu(许锡童)1, Shuang Jia(贾爽)1,2
1 International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2 Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract  

The discovery of Dirac semimetal and Weyl semimetal has motivated a growing passion for investigating the unique magneto-transport properties in the topological materials. A Weyl semimetal can host Weyl fermions as its low-energy quasi-particle excitations, and therefore perform exotic features analogous to those in high-energy physics, such as the violation of the chiral charge conservation known as the chiral anomaly. One of the electrical transport signatures of the chiral anomaly is the Adler-Bell-Jackiw (ABJ) anomaly which presents as a negative magnetoresistance when the magnetic field and the current are parallel. Very recently, numerous experiments reported negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (NLMR) in topological materials, but the details of the measurement results are various. Here the materials and the corresponding experiment results are briefly reviewed. Besides the plausible explanation of the ABJ anomaly, some other origins of the NLMR are also discussed.

Keywords:  chiral anomaly      magnetoresistance      Weyl semimetal      Dirac semimetal  
Received:  12 July 2016      Revised:  14 October 2016      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  72.90.+y (Other topics in electronic transport in condensed matter)  
  72.10.-d (Theory of electronic transport; scattering mechanisms)  
  72.15.Qm (Scattering mechanisms and Kondo effect)  
  75.47.-m (Magnetotransport phenomena; materials for magnetotransport)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB921901 and 2014CB239302).

Corresponding Authors:  Shuang Jia     E-mail:  gwljiashuang@pku.edu.cn

Cite this article: 

Xi-Tong Xu(许锡童), Shuang Jia(贾爽) Recent observations of negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in semimetal 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 117204

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